@RiotBananas said:
There's so many of these games, which one is the best?!
Yeah, that's kind of the funny thing with this genre that many considers dead, only in the past 2 years I've bought 10 of them on Steam (the Wing Commander style story based space shooter is more rare though, SOL Exodus tried, and I'm not entirely sure if it succeeded or failed at what it tried to do, bigger budget and silly FMV would've helped I think). Still undecided which of them is the best, Evochron is pretty damn impressive, especially considering it's size, it's a game I'll never ever have to delete to save up on hard drive space, and it's music is amazing, the X series (the most recent are X3 and X3 Terran Conflict, which is a stand-alone expansion for X3) which are graphically rather damn impressive, but extremely EVE Online-ish, to the degree that they're pretty hard to get into, there's also Darkstar One, which is a couple of years older, more streamlined (and is available for the Xbox 360) and probably an easy game to start with, but where you're stuck with one single ship, ever. I-War 2: Edge of Chaos is on GOG, is 10 years old but still holds up pretty well, is rather user friendly as it was made in the tail end of when the genre was still a mainstream genre (I-War one had you commanding a decent Firefly-sized space dreadnought, but was a more linear mission based game, I-War 2 starts you off with a smaller ship but has the bigger ships later on), SpaceForce: Rogue Universe is available on Steam and seems decent and is only a couple of years old as well. Evochron Mercenary and EVE Online are the only ones I know of with multiplayer though.
I still love Elite, Elite 2: Frontier and Frontier 2 (using the COD/Modern Warfare naming convention), but they haven't been available on the market for decades, Wing Commander Privateer is a similar old-school game in the genre that's available on GOG, but it hasn't aged quite as well, graphically it still holds up, but it did some stupid things that were barely excusable back then, but are totally inexcusable now - like not mentioning what stuff you can buy costs or does in the game, only in the manual, really annoying when it comes to buying ships, as the game neither tells you how much it will cost or how much money you still need if you're still a little bit off.
